Copenhagen's Noma has retaken the number one slot in The World’s Best
Restaurants Awards. Here are the 50 top restaurants, with links to Telegraph
reviews

Danish restaurant Noma has regained its crown as the world's best restaurant after being knocked off its perch last year by a Spanish rival.

The two Michelin star restaurant in Copenhagen was toppled in The World's 50 Best Restaurants Awards in 2013 after three consecutive years at the top by El Celler de Can Roca, a Spanish family restaurant, but has now had its title restored.

The 45-seat restaurant in a dockside warehouse, which is headed by chef René Redzepi, is famous for its focus on reinvented, seasonal Nordic cuisine, and features unusual ingredients sourced from the local landscape, such as reindeer moss and cod liver. Last March, it hit the headlines for rather less savoury reasons after over 60 diners fell ill with food poisoning after eating there.

Mr Redzepi said: "We didn't expect it at all, we thought we had had our moment on this list. I know that for the team, this is the biggest moment.

"We came in here expecting nothing. The newspapers said Noma is over. We have a moment that is mind-boggling."

The UK's highest entry in the list was Heston Blumenthal's Dinner, at the Hyde Park Mandarin Oriental hotel in London, which moved up two places to the fifth spot. Notting Hill restaurant The Ledbury moved up three places to number 10.

Twenty-eight restaurants within the top 50 were European, while seven were American and another seven in Asia.

Organised annually by Restaurant Magazine, The World's 50 Best Restaurant Awards are voted for by over 900 industry experts, and are considered an alternative to the more established Michelin rankings.